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Title
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County OKs Plan to Improve Gum Springs Living Condition
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Repository
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American's Historical Newspapers
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Date Created
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5/1/1979
127th Year, No. 121
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Creator
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By: Christopher Hanson
The Evening Star (published as The Washington Star)
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Description
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Article on the passage of the Improvement Program and Conservation Plan for Gum Springs. The article notes the specific stakes Gum Springs residents held in bringing this plan forward due to their fears of rampant development "undermining the historic flavor of the Mount Vernon District area." This conservation plan gave residents a major say in how the development of the community would be carried out over the next three decades.
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Index/Partial Transcript
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"The neighborhood improvement plan is also designed to give residents a major say in how the large rural areas in the community will be developed."
"Speaking on behalf of the plan, Gum Springs Civic Association President Thomas Brown said, 'but when we, the blacks who (supposedly) want to live in squalor, take steps to improve our lot by our own steam, all kinds of critics are found. I say too late.'"
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Research Themes
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Gum Springs
Improvement Program and Conservation Plan
Gum Springs Civic Association
Black geographies
Black resistance
Housing
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Researcher Name
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Jacob Connelly
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Bibliographic Citation
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Hanson, Christopher. “County OKs Plan to Improve Gum Springs Living Condition.” The Evening Star (Published as The Washington Star), May 1, 1979, 127th Year, No. 121 edition. America’s Historical Newspapers.
